Calf-muzzle.



P. C. ROBERTS.

GALF MUZZLE.

' APPLIOATION HLBD SEPT. 24, 190s Patented Mar. 9,1909.

A wnmow UNITE@ CALF-MZZLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 9, 1909.

Application led September' 24, 1908. Serial No. 464,568.

To all rwhom it may concern:

Be it knot-vn that I, PAXsoN C. Renners, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Hitchcock and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calf-Mu zles 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aocomp anying drawings, and to the characters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

This invention relates to nevi and useful improvements in calf weaning devices or muzzles and comprises a simple and efficient device of this nature comprising various details of construction, combinations and an rangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accom panying drawings, in Which2- Figure l is a perspective vier: showing the application of my invention to the head of a calf. Fig. 2 is a view of the muzzle detached, and Fig. 3 is a sectional vien' on line 3 3 of liig. 2.

Reference novrbeing had to the details of the drawings by characters, A designates a vrire which is bent to form loops A and A2 in the former of which one end of the strap B is fastened, While in the latter a strap C is secured to which is fastened a buckle D to be engaged by said strap B. Said Wire has two parallel portions, designated by letters E, adapted to extend alon adjacent to the jaws of the animal and eac end terminates in a loop F, in one of which one end of the stra G is fastened While in the other loop a bucle carrying strap II is fastened, which strap G is adapted to pass about the head of the animal in the manner shown in Fic'. l of the drawings. Said Wire is bent substantially at right angles at corresponding ends of the loops to the parallel portions E and thence is bent downwardly at right angles forming a bail shaped portion, the end of Which is adapted to be positioned above the end of the nose .of an animal on which the device is adjusted. A vrire N has its ends twisted about said bail-shaped portion as shown and Wires R having coils therein engaged by said wire N and also by the bailshaped Wire are mounted side by side, each having a free end T projecting as a spur, as sh vfn, thus forming means for pricking into a con in the event of the calf throwing the spurs against the animal. In order to hold the muzzle upon the head of an animal, a suitable throat latch I is fastened thereto and adapted to buckle about an animal, as will be readily understood.

When the device is applied to the head of a calf in the manner shown, it will be noted that it will not interfere vwith the calf s eating or drinking, the spur carrying portion being above the nostrils and out of the Way of the mouth of the animal.

What I claim to be near is A device for weaning calves, comprising a aire bent at its longitudinal center to form a bail-shaped portion, the wire forming the sides of the opposite edges being bent downward and rearward at right angles to said bailshaped portion, thence turned into coils forming loops, a chin strap engaging said loops, the ends of the Wires thence eX- tending parallel to each other Y`and to the plane in Which the baitshaped portion is disposed and terminating in loops for engagement of straps, a cross Wire coiled about the sides of the bail-shaped member adjacent to said right angled portions, a spur vyire having eyes at corresponding ends for the reception of said cross Wires and eyes through which the end of the bail-shaped portion extends, the end of the bail-shaped member adapted to be held in a iixed position above the nostrils of the animal to .vhich the device is attached, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of trio Witnesses.

PAYSON C. ROBERTS. TWitness es R. A. GIBSON, GEO. M. LAURENCE. 

